Name: Indiana Orchard Apple Crumb Pie
Yield: Makes 1 deep 9½-inch pie; serves about 8
Cuisine: United States
Ingredients: ½ teaspoon fresh-grated nutmeg; 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon; 5 tablespoons cold unsalted butter; Pinch ground cloves (optional); ⅓ cup packed light brown sugar; ½ cup all-purpose flour; Vanilla ice cream or Cheddar cheese, for serving (optional); 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon; 3 tablespoons cornstarch; ⅔-¾ cup sugar, or to taste; 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice; 10-12 apples, such as Jonathans (and/or Northern Spies) and Golden Delicious

Preparation info

Makes 1 deep 9½ inch pie; serves about
8

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Classic Home Desserts

By Richard Sax

Published 1994

About

When I still owned a Fire Island house, we always welcomed the end of summer—and the departure of the summer crowds. So that’s when we’d invite my friend Mick’s sister, Nancy, for her annual visit from Indiana. Every year when we met her at the boat, she would be dragging two enormous canvas bags full of apples that she had picked the day before in an Indiana orchard.

Mick would unzip the bags and stick his face inside, inhaling deeply. Suddenly the house would fill with a winy appl